Paint Lick Elementary School

Paint Lick Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Paint Lick, Kentucky, operated by Garrard County, teaches 260 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% below the state mean of about 421.

Within Garrard County, which oversees 5 schools and 2,503 students, Paint Lick Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Paint Lick Elementary School lists that nearly all students (90%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Paint Lick Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 54.1%, a residual of +15.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Garrard County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,087 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Paint Lick Elementary School is one of 6 public schools in Garrard County (combined enrollment of about 2,503 students).

Garrard County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Paint Lick Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.3%.

Paint Lick Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Paint Lick Elementary School has shrank 22%, going from 333 students in 2018 to 260 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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